I have style defined for my document. I would like that style to have it’s own indentation, specifically, no indentation. Can this be done. Looked around but didn’t see any.
Hi.
All you have to do is format a paragraph from that style to have no indent :
Then, having still a chunk of text of that style selected, redefine your style :
How did I not think of that. Been a long day. thanks. Speaking of styles. Can you define the style so that it stays active even after you press the return key?
At the bottom of the dialog that comes up when you create or redefine a style, there is a dropdown menu labelled “Next Style:” with the default “None”. Click on the up-down arrowheads and choose the style from that menu.
Mark
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Note that there is currently a bug with that. If you only save “paragraph style” (rather than “save all formatting”) in your style, the font reverts to the “no style” font when using that “next style” feature.
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As a Mac user, I didn’t know that!
Mark
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Hmm…
As the maxim goes :
“He who said bug, must’ve implied Windows”.
The above advice for setting up a style may be what you were needing, but I do want to back up just a bit to note that styles are meant for text requiring out-of-the-ordinary formatting, compared to the majority of your text. Most text in your manuscript should be left unstyled, allowing you much greater flexibility when you go to compile—and you can control what that unstyled text looks like in the editor by adjusting the default formatting in the Editing tab of File ▸ Options... (or, if you need different default formatting for this specific project, in the Formatting tab of Project ▸ Project Settings...).
While changes to the default formatting will only affect newly created documents, you can update existing documents to use that formatting by selecting them in the binder/outliner/corkboard and choosing Documents ▸ Convert ▸ Text to Default Formatting.... Unstyled (“No Style”) text in the documents will then take on the default formatting (and styled text will revert to the style’s saved settings).
When you compile, you can if you like choose an entirely different formatting for that unstyled text using section layouts that override the editor formatting. Styled text will not be affected by that (but you can choose to redefine the style as part of the compile format, so the “Title” style could look different in one compiled output than another, and both different from how it appears in the editor)—so using the default formatting in the editor, whatever you want that to look like while working, makes it easy to apply one of the built-in compile formats and generate a document using its formatting consistently.
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